Thanks for your prompt replies. Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou > <amanda-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote: > > > On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was > > related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes. > > > > Right -- if you're doing 14 backups (2 weeks, every day), you're not > going to fit that on 12 tapes. You need 15 tapes. >
I wasn't clear enough. I run a backup every working day (monday to friday), which means 10 backup per cycle so I guess 12 tapes is enough. Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > Furthermore, it looks like you don't have enough holding-disk space: > > > FAILED [no more holding disk space] > > > which is causing your dumps to go straight to tape, which isn't very > efficient. > I confess I haven't configurated this part. I understood (maybe I'm wrong) that it would work anyway. Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > Furthermore, your tape only wrote a bit over 1G: > > > DailySet-05 2:11 1140224K 28.8 1 0 > > > which is 28% of the length you specified in your tapetype definition. > Is there a problem with the tape? Or is the tapetype definition > incorrect? > I'm using 4Go tapes. They are all new and I have the same problem for every tape. I've used amtapetype for amanda.conf configuration. Below is the extract from amanda.conf related to the tapetype definition. > define tapetype HP-C1537A{ > length 3868 mbytes > filemark 225 kbytes > speed 491 kps > } > Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > mandaillou wrote: > Quote: > NOTES: > taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on > device > > The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape. > The capacity of all my tapes is 4Go. I feel like Amanda doesn't overwrite the tape but just fill the tape until it's full and then exit with the previous error message : "The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape." PS:can anybody tell me why I can't see my original post but only the replies ? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by mandail...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------